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Essay: Indígnate, by Stéphane Hessel.

The text Indígnate, wrote by Stéphane Hessel, talks, among other things, about the starts of social rights.These rights become popular as a consequence of World War II, but it is a result of many years of effort and struggle to become considered as a right everyhuman should be granted by law.
Hessel emphasize in the importance of these social rights for the reader to consider and notice how valuable they are.It is because they are so valuable that he persuades the reader to not be indifferent when facing a shocking situation. He writes that an indifferentattitude, whatever the reason is, is a way to lose our capacity to get indignant about something, which lets us in a disadvantage to fight against what weconsider should not be.
Sartre, as Hessel writes, thought that the only way to end with violence is violence, even though he recognized the risk ofincreasing violence instead of ceasing it.
In the other hand, Hessel was convinced that the only way to reach peace is in a non-violent way, this is why hepersuades the reader to be indignant about situations that deserve it and resist them in a non-violent way.
Personally, I think the writer’s alternativeto violence is adequate to the world that we live in. Violence cannot and should not be fought with more violence, if we want a real change we should bealert to what is surrounding us and make sure we participate in non-violent actions towards stopping or changing the situations we do not agree with.